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A New York Times besteller!It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of wha...

«Si no recuerdo mal», confiesa Pynchon en la Introducción , «escribí estos relatos entre 1958 y 1964, cuatro de ellos cuando estudiaba en la universidad. (.) Tal vez el lector ya sepa hasta qué punto leer cualquier cosa escrita hace veinte años, incluso cheques cancelados, puede suponer un golpe para el ego de uno. Mi reacción al leer estos relatos fue exclamar : "¿Dios mío !", al tiempo que experimentaba unos síntomas físicos en los que prefi...

Pynchon's "V". won the coveted William Faulkner Foundation's First Novel Award when it appeared in 1963, and was hailed by "Atlantic Review" as "one of the best works of the century".

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California, inizio anni Settanta. Doc Sportello, investigatore privato con una passione smodata per le droghe e il surf, viene contattato da una vecchia fiamma, Shasta, che gli rivela l'esistenza di un complotto per rapire il suo nuovo amante, un costruttore miliardario. L'investigatore non fa neanche in tempo ad avviare le sue indagini che si ritrova arrestato per l'omicidio di una delle guardie del corpo del costruttore, il quale è intanto s...

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Un buen día, la señora Edipa Maas se entera de que ha sido nombrada albacea de una inmensa fortuna por su ex amante Pierce, un millonario californiano. Una serie de sorprendentes coincidencias la pondrán sobre la pista de un delirante misterio en el que se cruzan personajes tan estrafalarios como su marido, Mucho Maas -aficionado al grupo británico Dick el Sucio y los Volkswagen, pero en cuyo éxito no cree-, el doctor Hilarius -un obseso freud...

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Oedipa Maas era una giovane casalinga californiana, laureata in letteratura inglese e moglie di un deejay radiofonico. Poi, un giorno, viene nominata esecutrice testamentaria, e tutto cambia. Una cospirazione mondiale, antica di secoli, getta la sua ombra sulla vita di tutti i giorni, sull'America solare e felice degli anni Sessanta, e lancia Oedipa sulla scia di un enigma impossibile. Torna a quarant'anni dalla pubblicazione questo romanzo cu...

Excerpt from The Chemical Forces: Heat Expansion, Light and Electricity of an the to Chemical Physics, Designed for the Use of Academies, Colleges, and Medical Schools Light HousesThis Treatise has been prepared for the use of the general reader, as well as for that of Students in Academies, Colleges.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a r...

Early short stories by Thomas Pynchon, introduced by the author and praised as "an exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers" by the New Republic.Thomas Pynchon's literary career was launched not with the release of his widely acclaimed first novel, V., but with the publication in literary magazines of the five stories collected here. In his introduction to Slow Learner, the author reviews his early work with disarming candor ...

A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times -- sexual and political -- which have refused to die. Among them is Zoyd Wheeler who is preparing for his annual act of televised insanity (for which he receives a government stipend) when an unwelcome face appears from out of his past.An old nemesis, federal prosecutor Brock Vond, sto...

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Un lento apprendistato" include i cinque racconti (più la leggendaria introduzione a questo stesso libro) che Thomas Pynchon ha scritto tra il 1958 e il 1964. Pynchon racconta "a modo suo" storie di spionaggio, inquietanti incursioni nel cuore di tenebra dei sobborghi americani, avventure ambientate in gigantesche discariche di rifiuti e algidi esperimenti di fughe dal mondo. E dispiega con pienezza le sue tematiche ricorrenti: la critica all'...

With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up, sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.

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